Category Archives: Editorial

Rate Your Mortgage Revisited

I described the conditions when mortgages were paid before their due date on the first of the month in the first article. This update describes the outcome when I made the February payments. These payments were made between the first and sixteenth of the month.

Rate Your Mortgage – a Side by Side Comparison

On December 30, I paid mortgages on line to try and get a little break by paying “more interest” in 2009. While doing this I made “side by side” comparisons of the mortgage companies or their servicer. The mortgage companies used in this comparison were Wells Fargo, First Horizon, Saxon, and Everhome. I used statements, [...]

A Kernel of Truth at the Country Store

We went to the Country Store in our town. The people shopping inside were either men with lists or the wives of the men sitting outside on the bench in the sun. The conversation outside went around to the recession being over and the amount of stimulus money spent. It is strange that the men [...]

Subprime Credit Card Math

To those smug individuals asking if I am smarter than a subprime borrower, then I have a subprime math question for you.

Credit card credit counseling or anger management

Chase MasterCard sent a change to terms agreement. Chase is deliberately setting their customers up to fail on their card agreements at a time when account delinquencies are at the highest level in history. The new terms increase the minimum payment 2% to 5% of the outstanding balance.